The Palisades

The Palisades is a line of steep cliffs along the lower Hudson River in New Jersey, rising above 300 feet high. Giovanni da Verrazano said that the Palisades looked like a "fence of stakes"; palus, the root word of "Palisades", means "stakes" in Latin, and the nearby city of Weehawken may mean "Rows of Trees" in Lenape. In 1983, after years of quarrying, the Palisades were designated a national natural landmark.